@@SPM0717 and your point? You fishing for an argument? Or you just have too much time in you life and need to get political? Go back under the bridge troll, this is a peaceful place.
The fact Harry used to be a Doctor is always amusing to me. Imagine getting checked up by him then years later you see him on TV one Saturday night taking the mick out of your favourite program.
Haha was looking for this comment, it's weirdly ahead of it's time You can picture pretty much every Harry remark as the text above a picture on Twitter
This was my absolute favourite show growing up. I'm surprised at how much still sticks in the back of my mind - anytime someone mentions cataracts I act surprised, and every time I see a close up on actors' faces I watch their eyes for the tiny game of tennis.
Me too never watched it as a whole show just used to flick through and only found the odd thing funny but now I seen the whole thing and get what it's all about it's Amazing
this brought back so many memories. i was only a child when i used to watch this with my brother and never understood the majority of the jokes, but the bongos, knitted duck, the tv highlight of the week, the ‘FIGHTTTT’ could never leave my mind. tv gold.
I roomed with one of my best mates (who is sadly no longer with us as he was bi polar and committed suicide)... On a lads trip to Newcastle and we had an hour where neither of us could breathe as we were laughing so hard on this..... Harry Hill was delightfully abstract... In the wrong mood it would be 'meh' but in the right move it could provide a lifelong memory. I thank you for that Harry and I would love to see TV Burp coming back on TV in place of pretty much any show on early Saturday night TV. Before Ant and Dec of course cos they've been winning awards since 1965 🤩 (RIP Iain Davies) gone but not forgotten.... Absolute Legend
I remember thinking at the time, when I watched this live on a Saturday night, that this is the apex of traditional television entertainment. I was not wrong.
I haven’t seen this for years, it’s still as funny. I roared out loud with laughter from the very start What animal would want to live here ? 🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓 A fox? 🦊 Class
I seen him in Glasgow and he told 100% new jokes I'd never heard before or seen since. It's like a surreal Tarantino film the way he ties random insanity into one cohesive unit all in the last 10mins. Genius with outstanding memory
Writing for this show must be one of the most enviable jobs ever. OK watch TV and just record anything that made you laugh. With British soaps they make it so easy for you
A genuinely great comedian who never relied on smut, Harry is such a legend. his stand-up routines were intricate and often quite clever, I don't think i ever heard the man swear. Seems he was able to combine carry-on style slapstick and more surreal, modern type of delivery, good wholesome stuff. Another one who was great at this was Ross Noble, that guy's is insanely funny.
I didn’t appreciate this enough when it was on. I used to watch different shows and try and guess which parts they’d use each week, you could always tell when they were trying to get featured 🤣
I remember Saturday nights watching this as a kid, with a chinese takeaway and the whole family gathered around the telly to watch an episode of this. Good times, like watching the Weakest Link to get to this week's episode of the Simpsons, lovely.
it's only now looking back that i realise how foundational this was to my sense humour. the "cataracts?" gag has been buried deep in a quiet corner of my brain since this aired.
You're right, he is. But the poor sod got suuuuper-popular from randomly being a guest in some little cooking show when he was like 17, and it all just snowballed from there.... ( 'Important' people asking for your teenage culinary opinions, while throwing wads of money at you...) how could *anyone* hold onto a sane sense of self under those conditions? (he's still a proper twerp, of course)
I know it did have a pretty long run (2001-2012) but I’m surprised TV Burp isn’t on anymore, still really funny today even though what Harry’s talking about is pretty outdated. Plus the writers have even more crap to choose from now than they did then when it comes to making jokes about current shows
I went to see a live taping of this. It was pretty good - they give you beers beforehand they have a warm up comedian and then in came harry. It was a good set up!!
For the last 2 series , Harry wanted to try something else, TV bosses didnt agree & I used to watch him & think , "your hearts not really in it anymore is it mate?"
i used to love this growing up, it was great when the whole family (aunts, uncles, in-laws) used to gather round our little crtv and watch x-factor, but then someone would get drunk and take the remote and stick this on. we used to laugh at harry hill's funny voices and the characters he would have on, pass arounds snacks like twiglets and cooked rotisserie chicken. we never much cared for the fight bit though, that was a bit naff. we went to see one of his live shows once but it had to be cancelled because one of the pipes burst in the venue basement and they couldnt get permission from the fire brigade to turn the water supply back on, and of course regulations being what they are they werent allowed to host any shows without drinking water on tap or working toilet/handwashing facilities. they re-booked the show for the smaller auditorium across the street, but evidently harry was feeling a bit of a diva and refused to go on stage unless someone would get him a bottle of authentic champagne (he specified, "proper french stuff"), and they didnt have any behind any of the bars. no one wanted to fork out so in the end my aunt and i said we would get some. we went down the road to the tesco extra and bought the fifty (50!) pound bottle, and by the time we got back, people were crying, half the stage lights had gone out, and harry had disappeared. no one would tell us where he'd gone but we surmised that the police had been involved. neither of us really cared for bubbly so in the end i donated it to the bottle lottery at my local school fete. we never did figure out where harry had gone, and it took the venues (plural) multiple weeks to refund us. overall i hope the bloke is doing well, though i cant help but feel that some of his material is a bit broad.
I think the TV landscape has definitely changed in the last 20 years, this was peak "let's put idiots on TV and laugh at them" programming from the mid 2000s.
